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If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again.

Proverbs and old sayings about nature

When cicadas sing, the swineherd weeps and works. When frogs sing, the swineherd yawns.

Proverbs and old sayings

A fool doing what he knows is better than a hundred wise men doing what they don't know.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

The difference between appearances and truth is the same as between warping and weaving.

Proverbs and old sayings about truth

Dress up a rod, it looks like a baron. Dress up a stick of heather, it looks like a lady.

Proverbs and old sayings

The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees not the sun and in summer it sees not the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings about moon, wealth, sun, bad luck, bad

When force and reason are in conflict, force of reason prevails and being reasonable isn't enough.

Proverbs and old sayings about force, police, reason, conflict, being

On April 8th, the cuckoo's call must be heard. If it isn't, either the cuckoo is dead or is going to die.

Proverbs and old sayings about death

A father and mother can raise ten children. But ten children aren't enough to keep a father and a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, mother

If everyone's misfortunes were seen by all in broad daylight, in the end people would take back their own.

Proverbs and old sayings about end, people

Pray for those who are born into good families, for those born into bad families always manage to succeed.

Proverbs and old sayings about pray, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

If there's thunder at Capu di Staghju, leave the wheat outside. If there's thunder at Capu di Muru, put it in a safe place.

Proverbs and old sayings

Candlemas, Candlemas, whether windy or rainy, winter has ended. And if the weather is good, winter will last another thirty days.

Proverbs and old sayings about weather, day, good, good luck

When the cuckoo sings, the wild boar loses its old coat, and the hen lays an egg without a false nest. And the ram's horns round out - he looks like a general.

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness

March, mean, son of an ogre! You've taken all my suckling lambs and left only one weaned lamb. - Oh April, my brother, give me two days, because alone, I don't have them.

Proverbs and old sayings about day, contentment

Envy shoots as others and wounds herself.

Proverbs and old sayings about envy

Beauty and folly are constant companions.

Proverbs and old sayings about beauty

The last to breathe is the first to drown.

Proverbs and old sayings

To give in order to receive is not to give, but to beg.

Proverbs and old sayings about order

Every word has three definitions and three interpretations.

Proverbs and old sayings about word